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Monday, 13 March 2006
WHO CONFIRMS THREE AZERBAIJANIS DIED OF BIRD FLU
By empty (3/13/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Azerbaijan\'s Deputy Health Minister Abbas Velibeyov said in Baku on March 13 that tests conducted by the World Health Organization have confirmed that three persons from Azerbaijan\'s Salyany district have died of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza. A Health Ministry statement said that the diagnosis of bird flu has not been confirmed in six more inhabitants of Salyany suffering from flu-like symptoms. A March 10 statement by the WHO described Azerbaijan\'s response to the discovery of bird flu as \"prompt and efficient, but hampered by the lack of some essential equipment and supplies and inadequate diagnostic capacity.
Azerbaijan\'s Deputy Health Minister Abbas Velibeyov said in Baku on March 13 that tests conducted by the World Health Organization have confirmed that three persons from Azerbaijan\'s Salyany district have died of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza. A Health Ministry statement said that the diagnosis of bird flu has not been confirmed in six more inhabitants of Salyany suffering from flu-like symptoms. A March 10 statement by the WHO described Azerbaijan\'s response to the discovery of bird flu as \"prompt and efficient, but hampered by the lack of some essential equipment and supplies and inadequate diagnostic capacity.\" (AP)